General union GMB has put its support behind a planned
protest outside a private residential property management company that received
more than £2 million in housing benefits over 2012/13. The protest against
Earlsfield Properties is driven by a belief that such a "large sum of
public money going to private 'middlemen' is wrong". Last month a GMB
study on the top 20 company landlords that receive housing benefit direct from
councils for tenants renting their properties showed that for 2012/13
Earlsfield Properties received: £754,298 from Wandsworth, Merton £725,964,
Croydon £414,072, Sutton £116,611 and Kingston-upon-Thames £86,858. The total
of £2,097,804 makes the firm the 9th largest private recipient of housing
benefit in the UK. Read more on the GMB website.
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